BALFOUR help please?

[loobylooayr]

Sorry I forgot to give a link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lowther,_3rd_Earl_of_Lonsdale 

[Aussie33]

Thankyou for your help.

Alexander Balfour Feltus born 1859 (groom in clipping) ,son of James & Jane Feltus b c 1815 (nee Balfour).

Alexander Balfour was born probably sometime before 1784,so if he was the son of  John & Ellen Balfour, then it would not be too distant a kinship.

I had considered that maybe AB Feltus was telling porkies to impress his bride. Maybe they both were telling lies but this is my only clue to Alexander's ancestry. Trying to follow up every little clue I find.

Off to look at the website that I hadn't found on my earlier google searches

[loobylooayr]

Yes, it could be for some that for some reason Alexander Feltus and Lizzie Lowther beefed up their family connections to impress their neighbours and acquaintances.
What's strange is that both men were still very much alive (Balfour had been Prime Minister just 3 months earlier) and could contradict the claims but then again it was only a marriage notice in a local Australia newspaper. Little did they know that over 100 years later the internet would reveal their embellishment

Good luck with the rest of you research and I hope you find Alexander Balfour's beginnings no matter where or to whom!

[Kev Reilly]

arthur balfour was responsable for the creation of the state of isreal

he was also related to the balfours of pilrig who descended from alexander balfour of inchrye
from about 1450
when he retired to the lords, he took the title of baron of inchrye

the old steading at inchrye is up for sale